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You're only as good as your last book.

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
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We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
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My dream is a red dress Above my knees High-heel red sandals And me coming over the top The music booming Hi Howie I will say With a lovely smile I don't want to play the game I want to be it.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on. I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.
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go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
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